Journal rankings · indicator year 2004
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Subfield ranking · 2004
Demography journal rankings 2004
24 ranked journals · Subfield in Social Sciences
Demography has 24 ranked journals in 2004. The median OJR fell 0.13 on 2003 to 0.56, below the world average of 1.00; Q1 starts at OJR 1.67. The top three are Journal of Economic Growth, Demographic Research, and Family Court Review.
Ranks and citation indicators: 2004. Journal access status and listed APC: source snapshot September 23, 2026.
Journals whose main subfield sits in this category and that published at least 30 citable documents (articles, reviews and conference papers) in 2001–2003, the window the 2004 score is computed on.
The OpenJournalRank Indicator (OJR) is a free, publicly available metric of a journal’s field-normalized citation impact, computed from open OpenAlex citation data. It compares citations to a journal’s papers from the previous three years with the world average for papers of the same subfield, year and type, so 1.00 is the world average and values can be compared across fields. It is computed with the NCI3 method.
The middle OJR among ranked journals in this category: half score higher, half lower. 1.00 is the world average for papers of the same subfield, year and type.
The dot is this category, the solid tick is the median of all ranked journals and the dashed line is the world average.
Share of ranked journals in this category that are fully open access, so every paper is free to read. Hybrid journals, which sell subscriptions and open single papers for a fee, are not counted.
Median list price of the article processing charge, in US dollars, among ranked journals in this category that list a price above zero. Journals with a listed APC of $0 and journals with no known price are left out of this median. The At a glance table below gives a second median that includes the $0 prices.
Subfields of Social Sciences (22)
24 ranked journals
Filters
Rank is the position by OJR within the list on screen; 1 is the highest. | OJR is field-normalized 3-year citation impact: 1.00 is the world average for papers of the same subfield, year and type, so values compare across fields. The badge is the journal’s quartile in this list. | Citations per paper over a two-year window, counted from OpenAlex. It is not field-normalized, so compare it only between journals of the same field. ▲ or ▼ is the change from 2003. This is OpenJournalRank’s own count, not Clarivate’s Journal Impact Factor. | Citable documents (articles, reviews and conference papers) published in 2001–2003, the window the 2004 OJR is computed on. A journal needs at least 30 to be ranked. | Share of the journal’s 2001–2003 papers that are free to read in any open-access form. The green OA tag next to a title marks a fully open-access journal. | List price of the article processing charge in US dollars. “$0 listed” means the listed price is zero; a dash means no price is listed. | The line is the journal’s OJR from 2000 to 2004. | Compare |
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1Journal of Economic GrowthSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 8.88Q1 | 3.13 0.57 down from 2003 | 44 | 36% | $4,290 | ||
2Demographic ResearchOAMax Planck Institute for Demographic Research · Germany | 2.00Q1 | 1.40 0.15 up from 2003 | 89 | 100% | — | ||
3Family Court ReviewWiley · United Kingdom | 1.96Q1 | 0.36 0.24 down from 2003 | 161 | 2% | $2,900 | ||
4Population StudiesTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 1.81Q1 | 0.77 0.05 down from 2003 | 110 | 8% | — | ||
5European Journal of Population / Revue européenne de DémographieSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 1.73Q1 | 1.20 0.58 down from 2003 | 68 | 7% | $2,990 | ||
6North American Actuarial JournalTaylor & Francis · United States | 1.67Q1 | 1.03 0.56 up from 2003 | 163 | 3% | — | ||
7The Contemporary Pacific/The contemporary Pacific (Online)University of Hawaii Press · United States | 1.52Q2 | 0.22 0.18 down from 2003 | 204 | 9% | — | ||
8Journal of Population ResearchSpringer Science+Business Media · Australia | 1.29Q2 | 0.65 0.04 down from 2003 | 37 | 8% | $3,190 | ||
9Journal of Elder Abuse & NeglectTaylor & Francis · United States | 0.58Q2 | 0.19 0.01 up from 2003 | 68 | 0% | — | ||
10GenerationsPublisher not listed | 0.57Q2 | 0.42 0.11 down from 2003 | 194 | 0% | — | ||
11Hallym International Journal of AgingSAGE Publishing · United States | 0.57Q2 | 0.19 0.01 up from 2003 | 31 | 100% | — | ||
12Journal of Technology in Human ServicesTaylor & Francis · United States | 0.56Q2 | 0.27 0.13 down from 2003 | 116 | 0% | — | ||
13Canadian Studies in PopulationSpringer Nature · Canada | 0.55Q3 | 0.28 0.16 down from 2003 | 54 | 100% | $3,290 | ||
14Marriage & Family ReviewTaylor & Francis · United States | 0.54Q3 | 0.44 0.22 up from 2003 | 113 | 0% | — | ||
15Journal of Divorce & RemarriageHaworth Press · United States | 0.52Q3 | 0.27 0.04 down from 2003 | 115 | 0% | — | ||
16OceaniaWiley · Australia | 0.51Q3 | 0.20 0.19 down from 2003 | 110 | 3% | $2,900 | ||
17The Journal of Adult ProtectionEmerald Publishing Limited · United Kingdom | 0.47Q3 | 0.17 0.13 down from 2003 | 80 | 4% | — | ||
18Activities Adaptation & AgingTaylor & Francis · United States | 0.38Q3 | 0.44 0.16 up from 2003 | 56 | 0% | — | ||
19Journal of Housing for the ElderlyTaylor & Francis · United States | 0.37Q4 | 0.13 0.03 down from 2003 | 40 | 0% | — | ||
20Documents d Anàlisi GeogràficaOAUniversitat Autònoma de Barcelona. Departament de Geografia · Spain | 0.15Q4 | 0.06 0.03 up from 2003 | 88 | 100% | — | ||
21GerontechnologyOAInternational Society for Gerontechnology · Netherlands | 0.11Q4 | 0.09 0.02 up from 2003 | 281 | 3% | — | ||
22Journal of Jewish EducationTaylor & Francis · United States | 0.04Q4 | 0.04 0.04 up from 2003 | 86 | 0% | — | ||
23Perspectives on GerontologyAmerican Speech–Language–Hearing Association · United States | 0.00Q4 | 0.00no change | 38 | 0% | — | ||
23Contemporary JewrySpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 0.00Q4 | 0.00 1.48 down from 2003 | 38 | — | $3,090 |
Subfields of Social Sciences, with Demography highlighted.
- Sociology and Political Science716
- Education363
- Political Science and International Relations222
- Public Administration46
- Gender Studies36
- Communication35
- Safety Research33
- Health32
- Library and Information Sciences32
- Linguistics and Language32
- Anthropology30
- Law26
- Demography24
- Transportation24
- Urban Studies19
- Geography, Planning and Development15
- Cultural Studies8
- Development2
- Human Factors and Ergonomics2
- General Social Sciences1
- Archeology0
- Life-span and Life-course Studies0
Journals
Citations made in 2004. Corpus-wide, 69.4% of core-journal articles and reviews published that year have at least one matched reference; the share varies by journal and field.
12 additional Demography journals with metrics are unranked under this release’s eligibility rules: a journal needs at least 30 citable documents in 2001–2003, at least 80% of them with a subfield, and a positive world-average expectation. Ranks are within the whole category; filters hide rows without re-ranking. OJR excludes self-citations.
At a glance
Indicator year: 2004. Publication window: 2001–2003. How these summaries are calculated
- Ranked journals
- 24
- Window papers (baseline)
- 16,495 +32.2% from indicator year 2001
- Median OJR
- 0.56 -35.0% from indicator year 2001
- Rising journals (2025)
- 1
Window papers are the baseline paper population: citable papers (articles, reviews and conference papers) from 2001–2003 in all journals of the world-average baseline, including non-core journals, counted by each paper’s own subfield. They are not the papers of the ranked journals alone.
| Measure | Year series | 2000 | 2001 | 2002 | 2003 | 2004 | 2005 | 2006 | 2007 | 2008 | 2009 | 2010 | 2011 | 2012 | 2013 | 2014 | 2015 | 2016 | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ranked journals | 16 | 16 | 22 | 22 | 24 | 22 | 27 | 27 | 29 | 29 | 31 | 31 | 33 | 34 | 36 | 40 | 41 | 40 | 40 | 38 | 40 | 42 | 39 | 40 | 40 | 38 | |
| Window papers (baseline) | 11,451 | 12,474 | 13,762 | 15,170 | 16,495 | 18,279 | 20,414 | 23,197 | 26,386 | 30,132 | 33,639 | 37,483 | 41,523 | 45,909 | 48,822 | 52,017 | 54,629 | 57,668 | 61,173 | 67,052 | 75,599 | 86,076 | 98,735 | 110,640 | 123,603 | 129,610 | |
| Median OJR | 0.711 | 0.854 | 0.72 | 0.683 | 0.56 | 0.708 | 0.680 | 0.84 | 0.86 | 0.90 | 1.09 | 1.060 | 1.16 | 1.27 | 1.23 | 1.21 | 1.14 | 1.13 | 1.056 | 1.04 | 0.97 | 0.91 | 0.83 | 0.74 | 0.82 | 0.846 |
How to read these rankings
- OJR, the OpenJournalRank Indicator
- A field-normalized 3-year citation impact, computed from OpenAlex with the NCI3 method. It divides the citations a journal’s papers received by the world average for papers of the same subfield, year and type, so 1.00 is the world average and 2.00 means twice as many citations as expected. Because it is normalized, it can be compared across fields. Read the methodology
- Quartiles
- Q1 to Q4 split the ranked journals of the list you are viewing into four equal groups by OJR. A journal’s quartile depends on the list: the same journal can be Q1 in its subfield and Q2 among all journals.
- Impact factor (2-year)
- Citations per paper over a two-year window, counted from OpenAlex. It is easy to compare with familiar impact factors but is not field-normalized, so compare it only within a field. It is not Clarivate’s Journal Impact Factor. Why it differs from the Journal Impact Factor
- Rank ranges
- Each rank in the latest year carries a likely range from 1,000 resamples of the journal’s papers. Where two journals’ ranges overlap, the data cannot tell them apart, so treat neighbouring ranks as ties.